kereta lipan

Malay

Etymology

Compound of kereta (“car; carriage”) +‎ lipan (“centipede”).

Noun

kereta lipan (plural kereta-kereta lipan)

  1. (East Coast Peninsular) train
    Synonym: kereta api
  2. (Sarawak, Brunei) bulldozer
    Synonym: jentolak
    • 1959 March 4, “Empat jentera di-khianatkan”, in Pelita Brunei, page 6:
      Jentera2 yang telah dirosakkan itu ia-lah sa-buah roller, jentera perata tanah jenis 99H, dan dua buah kereta lipan jenis D.4.
      The damaged vehicles are a roller, a soil leveller and two D.4-type bulldozers.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.